"George Foreman George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1969 to 1977, and from 1987 to 1997. Nicknamed ""Big George"", he is a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist. Outside the sport he is an ordained minister, author, and entrepreneur. After a troubled childhood Foreman took up amateur boxing and won a gold medal in the heavyweight division at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Having turned professional the next year, he won the world heavyweight title with a second-round knockout of then-undefeated Joe Frazier in 1973. Two successful title"
"Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali (; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. Nicknamed ""The Greatest"", he is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest boxers of all time. He was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and began training as an amateur boxer when he was 12 years old. At age 18, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, then turned professional later"
"at Vvedenskoye Cemetery. Below are the results from the 1964 Tokyo Olympic boxing tournament of Valeri Popenchenko of the Soviet Union who competed in the middleweight division: Valeri Popenchenko Valeri Vladimirovich Popenchenko (, 26 August 1937 – 15 February 1975) was a Soviet boxer who competed in the middleweight division (−75 kg). During his career he won 200 out of 213 bouts; he won an Olympic gold medal in 1964 and European titles in 1963 and 1965. He was named the Outstanding Boxer of the 1964 Olympics and given the Val Barker Trophy, becoming the only Soviet boxer to receive"
"the 1964 Tokyo Olympics: Józef Grudzień Józef Grudzień (1 April 1939 – 17 June 2017) was a Polish boxer. Grudzień was born 1 April 1939 in Piasek Wielki, Poland, which is near Busko-Zdrój. He won two medals at the Olympic Games: gold in the Lightweight division at Tokyo in 1964 and silver at Mexico City in 1968. He also twice won medals at the European Amateur Boxing Championships, silver at East Berlin in 1965 and gold at Rome in 1967. Grudzień won the Aleksander Reksza Boxing Award in 1991. Below are the results of Jozef Grudzień, a lightweight boxer who"
"Angelo Musone Angelo Musone (born March 1, 1963) is an Italian former boxer, who won the Heavyweight bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He was born in Marcianise. In the Los Angeles Olympics, after American Henry Tillman was controversially awarded their semi-final contest on a 5-0 decision, the defeated Musone was cheered by the American fans as he left the ring in tears. British TV commentator Harry Carpenter was highly critical of the decision saying ""Musone won that, and he won it well"" and ""if that is correct judging then I don't know what I'm talking about. I've never"
"a Welterweight) Melbourne - 1956 (as a Middleweight) Július Torma Július Torma (March 7, 1922, Budapest – October 23, 1991) was an ethnic Hungarian boxer competing for Czechoslovakia. He won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1948 for Czechoslovakia in the category up to 67 kg. He competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics (1948, 1952 and 1956). Torma defeated Hank Herring of the United States in the 1948 final. Torma also competed as a welterweight in 1952, losing in the quarterfinals; and in 1956, as a Middleweight. He was born in Budapest and died in Prague. London -"
"in the 1964 Olympic boxing tournament in Tokyo. Here are his results from that event: Jorma Limmonen Jorma Johannes Limmonen (29 September 1934 – 27 November 2012) was a Finnish boxer who competed in the featherweight division in the 1960 and 1964 Olympics. He won a bronze medal in 1960, losing in a semifinal to the eventual champion Francesco Musso, and was eliminated in the second bout in 1964. Limmonen won ten consecutive national titles in 1953–64, which remains a national record. He retired in 1964 and later worked as a boxing coach and a sports journalist. In 2006 he"
"first held in 1973. After retiring from competitions he coached sambo and judo in Tbilisi where he died in a car accident, aged 43. Anzor Kiknadze Anzor Kiknadze (, , 26 March 1934 – 17 November 1977) was a Georgian judoka who won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division (+80 kg) at the 1964 Summer Olympics. At the world championships he won two bronze medals, in 1965 and 1967. At the European Championships he won an open title in 1962 and 1964–66, and finished second in 1967 and 1968. He was also European team champion in 1963–66, winning team"
"Onyok Velasco when he won the country's second silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Manny Pacquiao described Villanueva as the ""original Filipino boxing icon who should never be forgotten by the nation."" AIBA president Wu Ching-Kuo also said that the death of Villanueva not only left a void in Philippine boxing but also ""in the hearts of all those who knew this hero around the world."" Anthony Villanueva Anthony N. Villanueva (March 18, 1945 – May 13, 2014) was a boxer from the Philippines. He competed in the featherweight (−57 kg) division at the 1964 Olympics and won a"
"other fighters who took the nickname ""Sugar"" in homage to him such as Sugar Ray Leonard, Sugar Shane Mosley, and MMA fighter ""Suga"" Rashad Evans. !colspan=3 style=""background:#C1D8FF;""|World titles Sugar Ray Robinson Sugar Ray Robinson (born Walker Smith Jr.; May 3, 1921 – April 12, 1989) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1940 to 1965. Robinson's performances in the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create ""pound for pound"" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990. He is widely regarded as the greatest boxer of"
"Harry Mitchell (boxer) Harold James Mitchell (5 January 1898 – 8 February 1983) was an English boxer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the light heavyweight competition after beating Thyge Petersen in the final. Mitchell was a four-time ABA champion in the light heavyweight class (1922–25). Today, located in the UK, there is a leisure centre that bears his name - the Harry Mitchell Leisure Centre - which has a fully equipped Hammer Strength brand weights gym, a gym that has entry only for women, and classes for badminton, fitness and various other"
"Boris Lagutin Boris Nikolayevich Lagutin () (born June 24, 1938 in Moscow) was possibly the most celebrated of Soviet boxers. During his career as a boxer, he has won 241 fights and lost only 11. He won medals in three Olympic Games, including two golds, in 1964 and 1968. Lagutin also won at European championships in 1961 and 1963 and at USSR championships in 1959, 1961–64 and 1968. Until 1967 Lagutin trained at VSS Trud, then - at VSS Spartak. During the period of failures, that followed the 1964 Olympics, Lagutin was removed from the USSR team roster. Along with"
"for the world welterweight title, but lost on both occasions. In July 1970 he took the Lineal, WBC and WBA super welterweight titles by winning Freddie Little, but lost them to Koichi Wajima in October 1971 in his last bout. Carmelo Bossi Carmelo Bossi (15 October 1939 – 23 March 2014) was an Italian boxer who held the European welterweight and world junior middleweight titles. Bossi boxed from 1961 to 1971 and his overall record was 40 wins (10 KOs), 8 defeats and 3 draws. Bossi won a silver medal at the 1960 Olympics. In early 1961 he turned professional"
"1990s of cancer. The Azumah Nelson Sports Complex at Kaneshie in Accra was named after him. <br> Azumah Nelson Azumah Nelson (born 19 July 1958) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer. Widely considered the greatest African boxer of all time, and is currently the 17th greatest pound for pound boxer of all time in Boxrec's ranking, he held the WBC featherweight title once and the WBC super featherweight title twice. Nelson had a stellar amateur career, competing at the 1978 All-Africa Games and 1978 Commonwealth Games where he won gold medals in the Featherweight class, and compiling an Amateur Record"
"of the Last 80 Years."" Johnson died at the age of 86 on February 19, 2015. Harold Johnson (boxer) Harold Johnson (August 9, 1928 – February 19, 2015) was a professional boxer. He held the World Light Heavyweight Championship from 1962 to 1963. Johnson was born in Manayunk, Philadelphia. He started boxing while serving in the United States Navy and turned professional in 1946. He won his first twenty-four fights before losing a ten-round decision to Archie Moore in 1949. Moore would be Johnson's biggest career rival. Johnson rebounded with four straight victories, including a ten-round decision win against future"
"Marian Kasprzyk Marian Kasprzyk (born September 22, 1939 in Kielce, Poland) is a former Polish welterweight boxer. He competed at three Olympic games, winning a gold and bronze medal. Kasprzyk won the Welterweight gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games and the Bronze Medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics as a Light Welterweight. 1964 Marian Krzysztof Kasprzyk (born 22 September 1939 in Kołomaniu near Kielce ) - Polish boxer, Olympic champion. His biggest success was at the Olympic games. In Rome, in 1960, he earned a bronze medal in light welterweight. In the quarterfinal he overcame the titleholder Vladimir"
"Randolph Turpin Randolph Adolphus Turpin (7 June 1928 – 17 May 1966), better known as Randolph Turpin, and in the United States also as Randy Turpin, was the undisputed Middleweight Champion of the World. Turpin was an English boxer who was considered by some to be Europe's best middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1951 he became world middleweight champion when he defeated Sugar Ray Robinson. Turpin was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2001. Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, to a black father Lionel who was born in British Guyana now known as Guyana"
"the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Willard and a dispute he had with Harry Houdini is the topic of Andy Duncan's Nebula Award nominated novella ""The Pottawatomie Giant."" Jess Willard Jess Myron Willard (December 29, 1881 – December 15, 1968) was a world heavyweight boxing champion known as the Pottawatomie Giant who knocked out Jack Johnson in April 1915 for the heavyweight title. He was known for his great strength and ability to absorb tremendous punishment, although today he is also known for his title loss to Jack Dempsey. Willard held the championship for more than four years. Today his"
"seen a man so shabbily treated in an Olympic boxing tournament"". Musone began his professional career undefeated in 18 fights, including a victory over a faded Leon Spinks in 1987. Later that year, Musone was defeated by KO by journeyman Steve Mormino, who dropped Musone twice in the sixth round, ending the fight. This was Musone's last pro fight. Musone later became a professional boxing referee and judge. Angelo Musone Angelo Musone (born March 1, 1963) is an Italian former boxer, who won the Heavyweight bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He was born in Marcianise. In the Los"
"his trainer Vladimir Trenin Lagutin managed to find causes of his losses and earned USSR and Olympic Champion titles again in 1968. Tokyo - 1964 Boris Lagutin Boris Nikolayevich Lagutin () (born June 24, 1938 in Moscow) was possibly the most celebrated of Soviet boxers. During his career as a boxer, he has won 241 fights and lost only 11. He won medals in three Olympic Games, including two golds, in 1964 and 1968. Lagutin also won at European championships in 1961 and 1963 and at USSR championships in 1959, 1961–64 and 1968. Until 1967 Lagutin trained at VSS Trud,"
"Joe Louis Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), best known as Joe Louis was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949, and is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. Nicknamed the ""Brown Bomber"", Louis' championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which he participated in 26 championship fights. The 27th fight, against Ezzard Charles in 1950, was a challenge for Charles' heavyweight title and so is not included in Louis' reign. He was victorious in 25"
"that he suffered from an eye melanoma that was, in the end, the direct cause of his death in Warsaw on 13 July 2012 at the age of 71. 1964 1968 Jerzy Kulej Jerzy Kulej (19 October 1940 – 13 July 2012) was a Polish boxer and politician. Kulej was born in Częstochowa, Poland. At the Summer Olympics in 1964 he won a gold medal in the light welterweight division (<63.5 kg) defeating Yevgeny Frolov. In 1968, he defended his title in a close match against a Cuban boxer Enrique Regüeiferos becoming the only Polish boxer to ever win two"
"two gold medals, in the bantamweight class only two boxers competed. In the featherweight class there were three boxers with Kirk earning the bye in the first round. <br> Oliver Kirk Oliver Leonard Kirk (April 20, 1884 – March 14, 1960) was an American bantamweight and featherweight professional boxer who won two gold medals in Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Beatrice, Nebraska and died in St. Louis, Missouri. Kirk is the only boxer in Olympic history to ever win two gold medals in two separate weight divisions at the same Olympics. He won gold in"
"Belgrade (1984) he defeated the former world champion from Russia, Valery Abadzhyan. He beat world champion Francesco Damiani in an international tournament in Benghazi in Libya (1984). He beat Craig Payne, Ferenc Somodi, Håkan Brock, Marvis Frazier, Peter Hussing and Biaggio Chianese. Notes: References: Aziz Salihu Aziz Salihu (born 1 May 1954 in Pristina, Yugoslavia) is a retired Super heavyweight boxer of Kosovar Albanian descent. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, and won the bronze medal in the super heavyweight division (> 91 kg), after a loss in the semifinals at the hands of"
"One of his trained fighters was Gabriel Elorde who won a world 130-pound title and held it for seven years. Villanueva died of heart attack in 1983. José Villanueva José Luis Villanueva (March 19, 1913 – November 11, 1983) was an amateur boxer from the Philippines who represented his country at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Born in Binondo, Manila, he won the bronze medal in the bantamweight class after winning the fight for third place against Joseph Lang. His son, Anthony Villanueva, also became a boxer, and won a silver medal during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Below are the"
"Deontay Wilder Deontay Leshun Wilder (born October 22, 1985) is an American professional boxer. He has held the WBC heavyweight title since 2015, and in doing so became the first American world heavyweight champion in nine years, which was the longest period of time in boxing history without an American heavyweight champion. As an amateur he won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 2008 Olympics. This led to his nickname of ""The Bronze Bomber"", which Wilder coined after Joe Louis, who was known by the nickname of ""The Brown Bomber"". Wilder is particularly known for his formidable"
"of 78 in Treviso, Italy, and is buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan. Duilio Loi Duilio Loi (19 April 1929 – 20 January 2008) was an Italian boxer who held the Italian and European lightweight and welterweight titles, as well as the world junior welterweight championship. Loi fought from 1948 to 1962, and retired with a record of 115 wins (26 KOs), 3 losses and 8 draws. Loi is considered one of the greatest fighters of all time at his weight and one of the best fighters to come out of Italy. Loi was born in Trieste in 1929,"
"Loren Ross Loren ""The Boss"" Ross (September 18, 1964 – July 31, 2013) in Nashville, Tennessee) is a former professional heavyweight boxer. Ross won the 1984, 1985, and 1986 United States Amateur Light Heavyweight Championships. This feat was also accomplished by future Heavyweight Champions Cassius Clay known better as Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks. Spinks, while serving in the United States Marine Corps won three consecutive United States Amateur Light Heavyweight Championships '74, '75 and '76. Lost to Pablo Romero (Cuba) at the World Amateur Championships in 1986 (4-1) for the 178 pound title. Ross had a professional record of"
"Ingemar Johansson Jens Ingemar ""Ingo"" Johansson (; 22 September 1932 – 30 January 2009) was a Swedish professional boxer who competed from 1952 to 1963. He held the world heavyweight title from 1959 to 1960, and was the fifth heavyweight champion born outside the United States. Johansson won the title by defeating Floyd Patterson via third-round stoppage, after flooring him seven times in that round. For this achievement, Johansson was awarded the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year—the only non-American to do so in the belt's entire 27-year existence—and was named the Associated Press Male Athlete of"
"out of 196 bouts. Oleg Grigoryev Oleg Georgievich Grigoryev (, born 25 December 1937) is a retired Russian amateur bantamweight boxer. He won the European title in 1957, 1963 and 1965 and an Olympics gold medal in 1960. Grigoryev took up boxing in 1951. He was the Soviet bantamweight champion in 1958, 1962–65 and 1967, placing second in 1957 and 1960. He also won the World Army Championships in 1961 and 1962 and finished second in 1963. He was a favorite at the 1964 Olympics, but was eliminated in the third bout. He retired from competitions in 1968 with a"
"Charley Burley Charley Burley (September 6, 1917 – October 16, 1992) was an American boxer who fought as a welterweight and middleweight from 1936 to 1950. Archie Moore, the light-heavyweight champion who was defeated by Burley in a 1944 middleweight bout, was one of several fighters who called Burley the greatest fighter ever. Burley was the penultimate holder of both the World Colored Welterweight Championship and the World Colored Middleweight Championship. He was born Charles Duane Burley in Bessemer, Pennsylvania on September 6, 1917 to a mixed-race couple: his father was a black coal miner and his mother a white"
"Ken Norton Kenneth Howard Norton Sr. (August 9, 1943 – September 18, 2013) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1967 to 1981, and held the WBC heavyweight title in 1978. He is best known for his trilogy with Muhammad Ali, in which Norton won the first fight by split decision, and controversially lost the latter two fights by split and unanimous decision, respectively. Norton also fought a slugfest with Larry Holmes in 1978, narrowly losing a split decision. Having officially retired from boxing in 1981, Norton was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1992. Norton"
"Akinobu Hiranaka Akinobu Hiranaka (平仲 明信, born Nobuaki Hiranaka, on November 14, 1963) is a former world champion boxer in the Light welterweight (Super lightweight or former Junior welterweight) division. He won the WBA Junior Welterweight championship of the world in 1992, and competed at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. He is one of the few Japanese champions that lacked financial backing from large gyms or television companies, and he had to personally negotiate with opponents to land a shot at the world title. Hiranaka won an amateur boxing tournament in high school, training at the local Ryukyu boxing"